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ner of the " Opposition line" shot at and killed two white 

 men and wounded two others, all of whom were remark- 

 able miscreants. We are about thirty miles below Fort 

 Pierre. Indians were seen on both sides the river, ready 

 to trade both here and at Fort Pierre, where I am told 

 there are five hundred lodges standing. The Indian dogs 

 which I saw here so very closely resemble wild Wolves, 

 that I feel assured that if I was to meet with one of them 

 in the woods, I should most assuredly kill it as such. A 

 few minutes after leaving Fort George, we stopped to 

 sound the channel, and could not discover more than 

 three and a half feet of water; our captain told us we 

 would proceed no farther this day, but would camp here. 

 Bell, Harris, and Sprague went off with guns; Squires 

 and I walked to Fort George, and soon met a young Eng- 

 lishman going towards our boat on a " Buffalo Horse " at 

 a swift gallop ; but on being hailed he reined up. His 

 name was Illingsworth; he is the present manager of this 

 establishment. He welcomed us, and as he was going to 

 see Captain Sire, we proceeded on. Upon reaching the 

 camp we found a strongly built log cabin, in one end of 

 which we met Mr. Cutting, who told me he had known 

 Victor [Audubon] in Cuba. This young gentleman had 

 been thrown from his horse in a recent Buffalo chase, and 

 had injured one foot so that he could not walk. A Buf- 

 falo cow had hooked the horse and thrown the rider about 

 twenty feet, although the animal had not been wounded. 

 We also met here a Mr. Taylor, who showed me the pet- 

 rified head of a Beaver, which he supposed to be that of 

 a Wolf; but I showed him the difference in the form at 

 once. I saw two young Wolves about six weeks old, of 

 the common kind, alive. They looked well, but their 

 nature was already pretty apparently that of the parents. 

 I saw an abundance of semi-wolf Dogs, and their bowl- 

 ings were distressing to my ear. We entered the lodge 

 of a trader attached to our company, a German, who is a 



